Costa Ricans will Vote Abroad for First Time in 2014

Costa Ricans living abroad will vote for the first time in the history in the 2014 during presidential elections, announced today the Supreme Tribunal of Elections (TSE).

The Tribunal indicated in a statement that these past Wednesday they said a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Relations that will allow joint organization for voting abroad for presidential elections and referendum.

"This agreement will allow joint activities in terms of training, extension, installation of voting stations and all the logistics necessary to facilitate the voting of Costa Ricans living abroad, in addition to any other activity for electoral purposes," affirmed the TSE .

Nowadays there are 50 consuls of Costa Rica all over the world qualified to receive Costa Rican citizens and include them in the electoral registration.

According to the official data, there are 4,086 Costa Ricans registered abroad, in countries like USA, Australia, India, and several European, Latin American and Asian countries.

Costa Rica has 4.3 million people and for the presidential elections of 2010 about 2.8 million voted.

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